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README.md

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 # Chiastic Slide
 
-Chiastic Slide is a Max for Live device that acts as a crossfader to a multi-chain device such as Instrument Rack or Audio Effect Rack. It can handle up to 32 chains, with control over the crossfade width.
+Chiastic Slide is a Max for Live device that acts as a crossfader to a multi-chain device such as a Group Track, Instrument Rack or Audio Effect Rack. It can handle up to 32 chains, with control over the crossfade width.
 
 ![How it Looks](images/device.gif)
 
 This allows you to have multiple chains of parallel material, instruments, etc and fade between them while time marches forward.
 
 I created this plugin when I saw that the Abelton's Rack devices (Instrument Rack, Audio Effect Rack) `Chain Selector` parameter only controlled input rather than output. I was looking to have any number of sounds playing simultaneously, but be able to smoothly fade between them without disrupting time.
 
-Traditionally, you can use this to fade between several different instruments or effects chains. Load up a few different pads in an Instrument Rack and give it a try.
+Traditionally, you can use this to fade between several different instruments or effects chains. Load up a few different pads in an Instrument Rack and give it a try. Slice a long block of audio and put the slices on parallel tracks. Record automation of moving between them as they play.
 
-Getting into the creative possibilities for this, things get pretty cool. Imagine 2-bar slices of an entire song playing simultaneously, in a loop, and being able to smoothly control which of those slices were audible. You can scrub through a song over the course of a two measures, locked in time. You can do this by slicing a longer recording into equal sized pieces, cropping those pieces, then select the pieces and drag them to an Instrument Rack device. This will create a Simpler device on each chain. Add an instance of Chiastic Slide after the Instrument Rack, sequence some notes the same length as your slices, and you can get jamming.
+Getting into the creative possibilities for this, things get pretty cool. Imagine 2-bar slices of an entire song playing simultaneously, in a loop, and being able to smoothly control which of those slices were audible. You can scrub through a song over the course of a two measures, locked in time.
 
-Or overlay a conversation between two people over time, scrubbing forward and backward through their exchange over the course of a measure or eight.
+If you're interested in this, then you may prefer to use my other, similar device called [SimulScrub](https://github.com/zsteinkamp/m4l-SimulScrub).
+
+Try overlaying a conversation between two people over time, scrubbing forward and backward through their exchange over the course of a measure or eight.
 
 Time becomes just another creative dimension, without ever losing connection with the recording's inherent rhythm.
 
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 ## Changelog
 
+- 2024-04-27 [v3](https://github.com/zsteinkamp/m4l-ChiasticSlide/releases/download/v3/ChiasticSlide.v3.amxd) - Support group tracks. Provide a visual for volumes.
 - 2024-01-15 [v2](https://github.com/zsteinkamp/m4l-ChiasticSlide/releases/download/v2/ChiasticSlide.v2.amxd) - Pretty big rework to fix an undo buffer flood bug.
 - 2024-01-09 v1 - Initial Release (download disabled).
 

chiasticSlide.js

@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
 autowatch = 1
 var MAX_PARAMS = 32
 inlets = 1
-outlets = 3
+outlets = 4
 
-var debugLog = true
+var debugLog = false
 
 setinletassist(0, '<Bang> to initialize, <Float> to fade.')
 OUTLET_STATUS = 0
 OUTLET_VAL = 1
 OUTLET_IDS = 2
+OUTLET_NUM = 3
 setoutletassist(OUTLET_STATUS, '<String> Status message to display.')
 setoutletassist(OUTLET_VAL, '<chain idx, val> Volume value for given chain.')
 setoutletassist(
   OUTLET_IDS,
   '<chain idx, id, param_id> messages to map live.remote to device id param_id.'
 )
+setoutletassist(OUTLET_NUM, '<num_chains> number of chains mapped.')
 
 function debug() {
   if (debugLog) {
@@ -43,7 +45,6 @@ function bang() {
 }
 
 function fader(val) {
-  val = val / 100.0
   //debug('FLOAT: ' + val)
   state.val = val
   updateVolumes()
@@ -174,6 +175,7 @@ function initialize() {
 
   if (currChain > 0) {
     sendStatus('OK - Set up ' + currChain + ' chains.')
+    outlet(OUTLET_NUM, currChain)
   } else {
     sendStatus('ERROR: Cannot handle it.')
   }

remote.maxpat

@@ -46,24 +46,9 @@
 					"numoutlets" : 1,
 					"outlettype" : [ "" ],
 					"patching_rect" : [ 171.0, 80.0, 28.0, 22.0 ],
-					"saved_object_attributes" : 					{
-						"attr_comment" : ""
-					}
-,
 					"text" : "in 1"
 				}
 
-			}
-, 			{
-				"box" : 				{
-					"id" : "obj-2",
-					"maxclass" : "newobj",
-					"numinlets" : 1,
-					"numoutlets" : 0,
-					"patching_rect" : [ 218.0, 185.0, 99.0, 22.0 ],
-					"text" : "print #0---FOO"
-				}
-
 			}
 , 			{
 				"box" : 				{
@@ -86,17 +71,8 @@
 			}
  ],
 		"lines" : [ 			{
-				"patchline" : 				{
-					"destination" : [ "obj-2", 0 ],
-					"order" : 0,
-					"source" : [ "obj-3", 0 ]
-				}
-
-			}
-, 			{
 				"patchline" : 				{
 					"destination" : [ "obj-43", 0 ],
-					"order" : 1,
 					"source" : [ "obj-3", 0 ]
 				}